What can poetry do to change the world?

Earlier this year, we met up with poet and artist Jazz Money in a half-renovated room at Carriageworks during the Sydney Writers’ Festival. Scooched into the corner sitting cross-legged on the floor, Red Room Poetry Creative Producer Izzy Roberts-Orr spoke with Jazz about the radical potential of poetry, Sara M Saleh’s brilliant poem, ‘Border control: mediations’, and specificity as a gateway to the universal.

Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist whose practice is centred around poetics to produce works that encompass installation, performance, film and print. Their most recent poetry collection is mark the dawn, published by UQP and now available at all good bookstores.

Sara M. Saleh is a human rights lawyer, organiser, writer, and the daughter of migrants from Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon. She has been published and anthologised widely, and made history as the first poet to win both the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and the Australian Book Review’s Peter Porter Poetry Prize. Her first full-length poetry collection, The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat is published by UQP, and her debut novel Songs for the Dead and the Living  is published by Affirm Press.

'Border control: mediations' by Sara M Saleh was published in Overland Issue 242, Autumn 2021, and was the winner of the 2020 Judith Wright Poetry Prize.



Explore Poetry Month

August is Poetry Month - a continent-wide celebration of contemporary Australian poetry established by Red Room Poetry to increase access, awareness and visibility of poetry in all its forms and for all audiences.

Explore the full program at https://poetrymonth.org.au/

This year, as part of Poetry Month, we're bringing the UK's Biggest Poetry and Performance Festival Down Under. The UK’s biggest poetry and performance festival BBC's Contains Strong Language comes to Sydney 28-31 August.

Check out the full program here - including events featuring both Jazz and Sara https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/contains-strong-language/

What can poetry do to change the world?
Earlier this year, we met up with poet and artist <a href="https://redroompoetry.org/poets/jazz-money/">Jazz Money</a> in a half-renovated room at Carriageworks during the Sydney Writers’ Festival. Scooched into the corner sitting cross-legged on the floor, Red Room Poetry Creative Producer Izzy Roberts-Orr spoke with Jazz about the radical potential of poetry, Sara M Saleh’s brilliant poem, ‘<a href="https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-242/poetry-judith-wright-poetry-prize-border-control-mediations/">Border control: mediations</a>’, and specificity as a gateway to the universal.
Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist whose practice is centred around poetics to produce works that encompass installation, performance, film and print. Their most recent poetry collection is <a href="https://www.uqp.com.au/books/mark-the-dawn">mark the dawn</a>, published by UQP and now available at all good bookstores.
<a href="https://redroompoetry.org/poets/sara-saleh/">Sara M. Saleh</a> is a human rights lawyer, organiser, writer, and the daughter of migrants from Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon. She has been published and anthologised widely, and made history as the first poet to win both the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and the Australian Book Review’s Peter Porter Poetry Prize. Her first full-length poetry collection, <a href="https://www.uqp.com.au/books/the-flirtation-of-girls-ghazal-el-banat">The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat</a> is published by UQP, and her debut novel <a href="https://affirmpress.com.au/browse/book/Sara-M-Saleh-Songs-for-the-Dead-and-the-Living-9781922848536/">Songs for the Dead and the Living</a>  is published by Affirm Press.
'<a href="https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-242/poetry-judith-wright-poetry-prize-border-control-mediations/">Border control: mediations</a>' by Sara M Saleh was published in <a href="https://overland.org.au/">Overland</a> Issue 242, Autumn 2021, and was the winner of the 2020 Judith Wright Poetry Prize.
 
Explore Poetry Month
August is <a href="https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/fff4f22e-7666-41f9-9697-ba6c733234ae?j=eyJ1IjoiaGF0dyJ9.MuPdyjXBWzCaPa9OIGO5LJHsnk6AwV-UUeKF2lR81IM" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.sbstck.com/redirect/fff4f22e-7666-41f9-9697-ba6c733234ae?j%3DeyJ1IjoiaGF0dyJ9.MuPdyjXBWzCaPa9OIGO5LJHsnk6AwV-UUeKF2lR81IM&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1723014945306000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1X0znGQtpHzx_pM9L2x0zm">Poetry Month</a> - a continent-wide celebration of contemporary Australian poetry established by Red Room Poetry to increase access, awareness and visibility of poetry in all its forms and for all audiences.
Explore the full program at <a href="https://poetrymonth.org.au/">https://poetrymonth.org.au/</a>
This year, as part of Poetry Month, we're bringing the UK's Biggest Poetry and Performance Festival Down Under. The UK’s biggest poetry and performance festival BBC's Contains Strong Language comes to Sydney 28-31 August.
Check out the full program here - including events featuring both Jazz and Sara <a href="https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/contains-strong-language/">https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/contains-strong-language/</a>

If a poem was a room you could walk into, whose voices might you hear?

Red Room Poetry, Australia's leading organisation for commissioning, creating, publishing and promoting poetry in meaningful ways, grew from a community radio show focused on the voices of Australian poets. Now celebrating our 20th year, we’re exploring our audio archives - including commissioned poems from the first two years of the national Poetry Month and beyond.

We’ll be sharing daily 30in30 poetry commissions and writing prompts across August, plus a special series hosted by our Red Room producers including ‘Language, Place, and Sonic Forms’, with Nicole Smede, ‘Write a poem, plant a tree’ with Lorin Reid, ‘Poetic Lifelines’ with David Stavanger and ‘A Line in the Sand’ celebrating the publication of our 20 year anthology’ with Izzy Roberts-Orr.

Tune in to hear from poets, authors, spoken word artists, musicians, playwrights and more. Check out the full poetry month program online at redroompoetry.org/poetry-month

Line Break, a new podcast from Red Room Poetry, brought to you as part of Poetry Month in August, and presented in partnership with the Community Radio Network.

If a poem was a room you could walk into, whose voices might you hear?
Red Room Poetry, Australia's leading organisation for commissioning, creating, publishing and promoting poetry in meaningful ways, grew from a community radio show focused on the voices of Australian poets. Now celebrating our 20th year, we’re exploring our audio archives - including commissioned poems from the first two years of the national Poetry Month and beyond.
We’ll be sharing daily 30in30 poetry commissions and writing prompts across August, plus a special series hosted by our Red Room producers including ‘Language, Place, and Sonic Forms’, with Nicole Smede, ‘Write a poem, plant a tree’ with Lorin Reid, ‘Poetic Lifelines’ with David Stavanger and ‘A Line in the Sand’ celebrating the publication of our 20 year anthology’ with Izzy Roberts-Orr.
Tune in to hear from poets, authors, spoken word artists, musicians, playwrights and more. Check out the full poetry month program online at <a href="https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/">redroompoetry.org/poetry-month</a>
Line Break, a new podcast from Red Room Poetry, brought to you as part of Poetry Month in August, and presented in partnership with the Community Radio Network.

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